On 2/15/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some thoughts on this topic by Eric Raymond here, in the broader context of "What will be the dominant 64-bit OS": http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html
Everyone writing in this(these) thread(s) should go read this. I might not agree with everything said (and who does anyways?) but he examines the issue of 64 bitness thoroughly. Someone mentioned endianess here too. Jon Bently(sp?) in Programming Pearls says that storing his numerical results as ASCII meant he didn't have to worry about the transition from VAX to SPARC to intel as he would've with binary. Personally, I think the 64 bit transition will happen when applications that people want get there. The history of video game consoles is a decent example. Computers have the addition of worrying about legacy applications.
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